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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way To all the pangs and fury of despair.

Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.

The world goes whispering to its own, "This anguish pierces to the bone;" And tender friends go sighing round, "What love can ever cure this wound?" My days go on, my days go on.

The name of the Slough was Despond.

The nympholepsy of some fond despair.

Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.

Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.

Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.

Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.

They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, But bear-like I must fight the course.

If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate; Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed; For nothing canst thou to damnation add Greater than that.

O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty! Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here, And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

But, O thou tyrant, Do not repent these things, for they are heavier Than all thy woes can stir. Therefore betake thee To nothing but despair.

He who has never hoped can never despair.

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.

. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.